Race, Racism, and Antiracism: UNESCO and the Politics of Presenting Science to the Postwar Public.
The article focuses on the measures taken by UNESCO to prevent the sort of race-based prejudice that lead to the Jewish Holocaust in Europe by creating a program that would discourage racism existing under the guise of science. The plan for such a program did not come to fruition because of internat...
| Publicado en: | American Historical Review Vol. 112; no. 5; pp. 1386 - 1414 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Dec2007
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| Sumario: | The article focuses on the measures taken by UNESCO to prevent the sort of race-based prejudice that lead to the Jewish Holocaust in Europe by creating a program that would discourage racism existing under the guise of science. The plan for such a program did not come to fruition because of international debate and a lack of agreement among scientists. The article discusses the effect that Nazism and scientific racism had on others in science and the reaction that anthropologists like Franz Boas had to that ideology. It is also noted that the U.S. also participated in racist practices like separating blood donations by African American soldiers so that it would not be given to Caucasian soldiers. |
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